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My life was described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it was not my life, but me, that was the exotic, the uprooted plant, the one who didn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
Now I am back in Australia, the returning native learning to live where I was born. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens); The Stormlord trilogy The Last Stormlord, Stormlord Rising, Stormlord's Exile, and writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. LATEST:
THE FORSAKEN LANDS
A clash of cultures and magic as traders and buccaneers hunt for spices and wealth in the Va-forsaken half of the world ... even as the unidentified darkness of plague and murder stalks their own land.
THE LASCAR'S DAGGER and THE DAGGER'S PATH available worldwide now! Final book, THE FALL OF THE DAGGER out mid-April.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Well folks, the time is here...

USA Orbit edition

Sometime in the next week, you should be able to get your hands on a copy of Stormlord's Exile, the final volume in the trilogy. That's half a million words all together by the time you arrive at the end of volume three! And Publisher's Weekly did say - twice in the same paragraph - that this last book is exciting, and so I hope you will enjoy the ride.

British edition -- Orbit

I am already getting news about readers who have got their hands on a copy already, so now I am waiting to see just who puts up the first reader review on one of the Amazon sites, or Good Reads or the Barnes and Noble. And yeah, I am one of the pathetic authors who does indeed hang around looking for reader feedback.

12 comments:

Australian covers for fantasy are ALWAYS better, guaranteed, without fail! Americans seem to need the blatantly obvious and gaudy to grab their attention, where as Aussies appreciate mystery and real art. I adore all your Australian covers. If I didn't know you or you writing, I would NOT pick you up based on your American and British covers, it saddens me to say :(

Thanks everybody for staying with me through those half a million words...

I've just corrected the cover illus. for the USA book 2 -- Stormlord Rising actually has a blue title, not orange like UK.

I've loved watching the Bookscan figures for USA -- they had already sold 200 copies before the release date (naughty bookstores!). And I have just had my first Amazon review (in UK) saying lovely, lovely things.

I've literally just finished Stormlord's Exile. I found the title a bit confusing as it doesn't really apply to the content, perhaps Stormlord's Kick Ass would have been better! I so loved the whole series. This last installment was exciting, nail biting and had me speed reading and having to go back as I couldn't wait to find out what happened. The characters really came into their own, their 'magic' blossomed as the book went on. Whilst it was a fantastic ending with all things 'wrapped up' there is still more I want to know. My mind is realing, what will Kedri & Amber be able to do? How will the world change? Will Ravard ever re-appear? Oooo, I so want another book to follow on from this, pleeeaaase!!

I don't have any plans for another Stormlord book at the moment, but who knows the future?

As for the title, if you think of a stormlord as being more than just Shale/Jasper, it will make sense. Terelle+Jasper = one stormlord and in the end they exile themselves. And the Waterpainters and the waterlords from Khromatis are also stormlords, even though they don't use that term...

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BEST FANTASY NOVEL OF THE YEAR Shortlisted Finalist2003: for The Aware; 2004: for The Tainted; 2006: for Heart of the Mirage; 2007: for The Song of the Shiver Barrens; 2009: for The Last Stormlord 2010: for Stormlord Rising 2011: for Stormlord's Exile 2014: The Lascar's Dagger 2015: The Dagger's Path 2016: The Fall of the Dagger